DeepSeek AI Model in China Cost $294,000 to Train, Developer Reveals
Originally Published 3 months ago — by theregister.com
DeepSeek's reported $294,000 training cost is misleading; the actual cost to train their base model was around $5.87 million, with the lower figure referring only to a specific reinforcement learning phase, not the entire training process. The article clarifies misconceptions about the expenses involved in developing large AI models and compares DeepSeek's efforts to Western counterparts like Meta's Llama 4.
